Saturday, February 18, 2017

New Release from Sandy Vaile, Combatting Fear

Sassy in the South

Featuring Sandy Vaile

Book blurb

Mild-mannered kindergarten teacher, Neve
Botticelli, leads a double life. At home with her paranoid father, she is a
combat trained survivalist who lives off-the-grid.

When self-made billionaire, Micah Kincaid,
storms into town in search of his four-year-old son, Rowan, he’s pushy,
entitled, and stands for everything Neve despises.

But something far more sinister than a
cheating estranged wife, is lurking in rural Turners Gully, and it has its
sights set on little Rowan’s inheritance. It turns out there is one thing Micah and Neve can agree
on, and that’s keeping Rowan safe.

As they work together to free Rowan, they
glimpse beneath one another’s guises, and realise that falling in love could be
even more dangerous than hunting deadly criminals.

Combatting Fear Characters

Hi, I’m Sandy
Vaile, and I’m not content with a story unless there’s a courageous heroine and
a dead body. When I’m not devising horrible things to
do to fictional characters, I write procedures for high-risk industrial
activities, mentor new writers through the Novelist’s Circle critiquing group,
judge romance writing competitions, present literary craft workshops, and write
the odd articles and blog.

The South Australian Romance Authors group
has been a source of information and support over the years, so it’s great to
be here to give readers a peek behind the scenes with the hero and heroine of
my new book, “Combatting Fear”.

Neve Botticelli’s life changed by a tragic
car accident when she was twelve. She was pulled to safety while her mother and
brother died. It meant having to live with her war-traumatised father on an
isolated property.

Seeing as he was her only family, she didn’t
begrudge giving up any chance of finding love, to care for him. Besides, she
gets to interact with the real world, and enjoy a simulated motherhood, while working
at the local kindergarten.

What she didn’t expect, was for Micah
Kincaid to disrupt her peaceful life by dragging her into a hostage situation, or
to find that he had far more attractive qualities than his money.

Micah is used to getting his own way. He
wields a multi-billion-dollar empire, but is he man enough to accept her as she
is? Here are Micah’s thoughts on Neve:

Their potent attraction had taken him
completely by surprise, and no matter how much she denied it, he knew she felt
it too. It was a magnetism that set his skin on fire and clouded his mind, but
it had developed into so much more for him. She was everything he had never
known he wanted: independent and fragile, stunning without the least bit of
effort to flaunt it, she fought for her fundamental beliefs, and would
challenge him on every level, but most importantly, she loved Rowan.

What’s next
for Sandy?

I
subscribe to Steve Job’s adage of “Bite off more than you can chew and then
chew like crazy”, and always have lots of projects on
the go. This year I am presenting five workshops, with the first, Show Don’t Tell is a Layer Cake,
starting on 27th February. Bookings via the Romance Writers of
Australia.

In April I’ll be attending the Salt
Festival in Port Lincoln. In May I have a glorious week-long writing retreat at
a secluded beach, where I plan on writing the first in an erotic novella series
called “Coastal Connection”. And hopefully by the end of the year I will make a
start on another romantic suspense novel, about a bodyguard and a woman who
runs a Riding for the Disabled centre.

I’d love to hear about the sorts of heroes
and heroines you like to read. Leave a comment on
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